When we first researched this area in 2008 there were three plaques erected by the LGTA; others were erected later so we had to go back. The first three plaques all end with the text "Awards for all". This reminds us of the Dodo in Alice in Wonderland: "Everybody has won and all must have prizes". It seems a particularly perverse motto for plaques, which by their very nature are erected for the select few. However, it actually indicates that the Lottery grants scheme of that name has, at least partially, funded the plaque.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association
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Alice Zimmern
Alice Zimmern, 1855 - 1939, pioneering advocate for women's education and suf...
Anthony Green
Lissenden Gardens Tenants Association Anthony Green, R.A., artist, lived her...
Haydn Wood
Haydn Wood, 1882 - 1959, composer, a much-loved master of British light music...
James Hanley
James Hanley, 1897 - 1985, novelist and playwright, lived here. Lissenden Gar...
Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw, O.B.E., 1875 - 1958, composer, quiet revolutionary of English mu...
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Olave Baden-Powell
Born Olave Soames in Derbyshire. 1912 met Robert Baden-Powell on a trans-Atlantic ocean liner. They discovered that they shared a birthday, even if they were 32 years apart. This didn’t stop them m...
Fitzjohn’s Residents’ Association
2018: We can't find anything on-line to indicate that they are currently active.
Jak Beula Dodd
Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, to parents who were both from Jamaica, John Bubeula Dodd is commonly known as Jak Beula. He is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage...
Chelsea Society
The Chelsea Society was founded by the Chelsea author Reginald Blunt (son of Gerald), with the aim of protecting the historical fabric of Chelsea and of influencing future environmental changes.
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Kensington Housing Trust / Catalyst Housing
Started as Ealing Family Housing Association.
Association of Jewish Refugees
The AJR provides an extensive range of social and welfare services, and grants financial assistance to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution living in Great Britain. The AJR’s plaque scheme honours p...
Dante Alighieri
Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. Unusually for the time he wrote in Italian rather than Latin. His Divine Comedy is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and th...
Eastcote Residents Association
Representing the inhabitants of Eastcote, West London.
Marine Society
From the Marine Society: "Founded with the aim of providing men to fight in the King's ships as Britain faced war with most of Europe, The Marine Society was the world's first charity dedicated to ...
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